Be Careful What You Ask For

I been seeing on the TV about this company what makes sweet cakes are going out of business. They was struck by a union. They told the peoples if they was struck they would close and they did. I ain't taking sides in all this 'cause I ain't sure what's right and what's wrong. But it did make me think about old man Nahum Wishbourney and him being a deacon at the Harper Lake Baptist Church all those year ago. Ole Nahum were a tall, skinny fellow with sharp features what kinda put you in mind of Abraham Lincoln. He were made a deacon mostly 'cause of his dedication and regular church attendance. It were always amusing to us kids 'cause Nahum would come into church, look over the crowd to see who were there, and then drift off to sleep. Over the years it got to be his regular job to second the motion on anything what were proposed. In fact some people called him Second-the-Motion Wishbourney. Now the Wishbourneys lived out in the country about ten miles from the church. The church provided a bus what went all over the countryside around Harper and collected worshipers. Well this were right after World War II just when things was getting more prosperous, doncha know? And as times got good more and more peoples was getting their own cars and not riding the bus any more. So one Wednesday night at prayer meeting somebody made a motion to cut out the bus service since it were only going to one house. Old Nahum's wife were sitting beside him and gave him a nudge to let him know a motion had been made and he sat right up and shouted out, "Second the motion." Next Sunday he missed Sunday School and come in late for church. He didn't have no idea what happened to the bus. But being as how it were a church we talking about, peoples got together and taken turns in bringing all the Wishbourneys to church. This went on till one of the Wishbourney boys got a job at the pickle plant and buyed himself a used Ford motor car.